Stay Lit at Perspective

Becoming a writer begins with becoming an observer. One who looks closely to the things happening around us and can express it, in a much wider, deeper and brighter way. Wider in the sense that a writer is someone, seen in the society, as someone who can express things that most people cannot in words. Who are writers? We are wordsmiths, and we know how to cultivate the right emotions through our words. Deeper and more profound in the sense… that writers do not just look at something and write that. Our muse almost resides in looking underneath the things that are happening in society. This is why, when I had written in my book, Kaliyuga on My Curls : “ Destroyed buildings do not terrify me, What terrifies me is the lost identity ” My observation was attached to the bombings in Ukraine by Russia that had destroyed a school. The bomb did not just destroy the school, but it killed the memories, the stories, the legacy of the particular building. Brighter in the way, that when Jane...

  Jane Austen had once said, “We are all fools in love”. We seem to always know what can be the best for us. We keep staring at the sky, counting the stars, wishing that God might soon send the right person for us. The right person: who is a right person? The one with the best smile; the one with wit and humour; the one a lot of bank balance… the one with a good emotional stability, the one with flying sparks… who, who according to you is a generalized version of the right person? No one can answer that. We all have our own version of the ‘right person’. Mine and yours would vary. But, when God finally sends that person into our lives do we really make enough efforts to keep them? They say, that the right person will always stay, no matter what. But that doesn’t allow you to keep them pushing away. That doesn’t allow you to keep banging the door at their face and then being grateful that they stayed. Just because you want to check if a person is actually the right person or not...